MARY JOAN WAID
EDUCATION
1961 B.F.A. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Fall Bounty,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2020 “Gems of the Spring,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2016 “Pop up exhibition, Ulrich museum of Art, Wichita, KS
2013 “Stillness,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2012 “Open Studio,” Yaddo Studio Crawl, New York, NY
2007 “Meditations,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2006 “Time Traveler & Persephone's Return,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Perennials,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Small Works,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO (two person show)
2001 “A Summer Garden,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Pastels,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “Hushed Moments,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “Then and Now,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Mary Joan Waid,” David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, AL
1997 “Realite,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Portraits,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1996 G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
1994 The Gallery, State Theater Center for the Arts, Easton, PA
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
1993 Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Beilefeld, Germany
1990 G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
1989 G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
1988 “Mary Joan Waid: Recent Works”, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
1987 G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
1985 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Signet Arts, St. Louis, MO
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
1982 Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galleries, Zurich, Switzerland
1981 Pima College, Tuscon, AZ
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 "Peace," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“I Know It When I See It,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2016 "From the Racks," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2015 “Women in the Atrium,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Wintry Mix,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2013 “Dealer’s Choice,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2012 “AAF – Los Angeles,” Atrium Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Non-Verbal Interaction,” Present Global Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
2011 “SILVER,” 25th Anniversary Show, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2009 “Art Chicago 2010,” Chicago, IL
2008 “The Art of Emprise,” Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
“Nature: Attitude,” Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Beilefeld, Germany
2007 “Art L.A,” Los Angeles, CA
“Experimenting,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Sublimis Interruptus,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Art20, The Armory,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Selections,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“The Flower,” Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Beilefeld, Germany
“Sublimis Interruptus,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “Holiday Group Show,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Stillness,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Body Human,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Palm Beach Contemporary,” Nohra Haime Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
“In the Back Room,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Salon 2005,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Past, Present, Future,” Okaloosa-Walton Art Center, Niceville, FL
“In the Back Room,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Art of the Twentieth Century,” The Armory, New York, NY
2003 “Atrium at the Plaza,” St. Louis, MO
“Portraits of Winter,” Connecticut Society of Portrait Painters, Greenwich, CT
“New Acquisitions,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Peter Burega, Judy Pfaff and Mary Joan Waid,” Ameringer Yohe, Boca Raton, FL
“Art Palm Beach,” Atrium Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2002 “Scale It,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Art is Art,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Art Palm Beach,” Atrium Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
“The Emprise Bank Collection, Multiple Personalities: 1954-1970,” Edwin A.Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
“Painterly Painting,” Nils Rykken Gallery
2001 “All Wichita: Part One,” Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, KS
“Selections,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“I Love NY Benefit,” New York, NY
“The Heart of Art,” Fuller Building, New York, NY
2000 “Recycled Paper III,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Realism Today,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Celebrating Yaddo Artists,” Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
1999 “Millenium Madness,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Into the New Century,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Recycled Paper II,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millenium,” Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Republic Plaza Building
“Equilibrium of the Senses,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“The Use of the Hand,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “Recycled Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Self-Portrait,” Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
“Still Life Painting Today,” Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
“Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Accrochage,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
“Self-Revelation: Artistic Confrontation,” Krasdale Galelry, White Plains, NY
1997 “Works on Paper, With Paper and Drawings by Gallery Artists”, Nohra Gallery,
New York, NY
“The Power of Color,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1996 “Realism”, Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
“Selected America Drawings, 1945-1995,” Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1995 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
“Director’s Choice”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1994 “Town and Country”, General Electric, New York, organized by the Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Flowers !!!”, Babcock Galleries, New York
“Director’s Choice”, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1993 “Self-Portrait: The Changing Self”, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
“Contemporary Art: Japan, USA”, Takamatsu Museum, Shikoku, and Ohji City
Art Center Gallery, Kobe City, Japan
“Still Life, 1963-1993”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“Director’s Choice”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1992 “Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma”, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
“Nature Morte: Contemporary Still Life”, HBO Corporate Headquarters,
New York, NY
“Small Work: Personal Choices”, G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
1991 “Picturing Families”, Wilson Art Center. Rochester, NY
“Aqua Pura: Images of Water in Contemporary Art”, HBO, Inc. New , NY
“Beyond the Picturesque, Landscape on Paper”, G.W. Einstein Company,
New York, NY
1990 “In Bloom”, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY organized by the Art Advisory Service,
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Collector’s Show (Director’s Choice)”, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
“165th Annual Exhibition”, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“Of Woman”, Katzen-Brown Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Portraits”, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
“Positive I.D.”, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
“Evening Skies: Artist’s Interpretations of the Cosmos”, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1988 “88 for 89”, G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
1987 Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind”, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
“Contemporary Still Life”, DFS Dorland Worldwide, Inc., New York, NY, organized by the Contemporary Arts Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Pastel Anthology II,” Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
“Studied From Life,” Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
“Close Focus: Prints, Drawings and Photographs,” The National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
“Artists in Their Own Image”, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY
1986 “Self Portraits, Gallery Artists and Friends”, G.W. Einstein Company,
New York, NY
“From The Collection of Centurion Andre emmerich”, The centurion Association, New York, NY
1983 “Made In America: 200 years of Drawing”, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts,
Minneapolis, MN
1982 “46th Annual Midyear Show”, The Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, OH
“Large Format Drawings”, G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY
“100 Years of Still Life Painting: 1882-1982”, Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX
“Arts On Paper...Since 1960”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
“Realist Painting: People and Objects in Women’s Lives”, Marymount Manhattan College as part of “Views of Women Artists”, New York
“Views of Women Artists,” Marymount Manhatten College, NY
1981 “Image-Self Image”, Pace University, New York
“Self-Portrait”, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York
“Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Fund Exhibition”, National Academy of Design,
New York, NY
1980 “An American Flower Show”, Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, MA
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2023 Wichita State University, College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame
2003 Ceificate of Merit, Connecticut Society of Portrait Painters, Greenwich, CT
1988 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
1985 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
1981 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
Purchase Award, Henry Ward Ranger Fund, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1979 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Fort Dodge, IA
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
York College, CUNY, New York, NY
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
American Telephone & Telegraph, Bedminster, NJ
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
British Petroleum America Inc., Cleveland, OH
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Citicorp, NA, New York, NY
Commerce Bank, Kansas City, MO
Emprise Bank, Wichita, KS
Metropolitan Life Insurance, New York, NY
Morrison and Foerster, New York, NY
Peat, Marwick and Mitchell, Denver, CO
PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Stephens, Inc., Little Rock, AR
Xerox Corporation, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Dwyer, Nicki. "An Advance Peek at 'Women in the Atrium' opening Friday," Nicki's Central West End Guide, May 7, 2015, illustrated.
2010 McHugh, Christine, ed. "Still LIfe Strategies: Mary Joan Waid," The Artist's Magazine, January/February 2010, pp. 42-3, illustrated.
2007 Bloomfield, Maureen. “Simple Gifts,” The Artist’s Magazine, June 2007, p. 28, illustrated.
2005 Bloomfield, Maureen. “Mary Joan Waid: An Artist’s Commitment to Working from Life Inaugurates a Journey Toward Radiance and Revelation,” The Pastel Journal, October 2005, p. 49, illustrated.
2001 Moss, E. Lynne. “The Sense of Still Life,” American Artist, New York, June 2001, p. 18.
2000 Gamwell, Lynn. Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind, Cornell University Press, State University of New York, Binghampton, 2000, p. 286.
“Mary Joan Waid y Michael Funk,” Casas y Gente, Mesico, December 1999-January 2000, p. 14, illustrated.
Schroeder, Ivy. The Riverfront Times, “Realism Today”, August 8-15, 2000.
1999 Landis, Ellen J., Bernard Barryte, Selma Reuben Holo and Peter Frank. Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millenium. The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Rosenzweig, Mark R., Leiman, Arnold L. And Breedlove, S. Marc. Biological Psychology, Sinauer Publishers, Sunderland, MA, 1999, p. 324, color illustration.
1998 Balka, Sigmund R. Self-Revelation: Artistic Confrontation, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY, January 15- April 15, 1998, exhibition brochure.
“New York Reviews: Mary Joan Waid,” Artnews, September, 1998, p.168.
Moorman, Margaret, “Mary Joan Waid: Then and Now,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC, 1998.
Neuvillate, Alfonso de. “Espejos florales: Realidad congelada,” Casas y Gente, Mexico, June 1998, p. 14, illustrated.
Zimmer, William. “Recognizing Self-Portraits by Americans,” The New York Times, New York, Westchester Edition, February 8, 1998, p. 20, illustrated.
1997 Daniel, Jeff, “Contrast Within Contrast Creates Startling Exhibit,” St. Louis Post
Dispatch, August 28, 1997, p.23, illustrated.
Wright, John, “The Shape of the World,” River Front Times, August 6-12, 1997.
1996 Enstice, Wayne and Peters, Melody. Drawing: Space, Form, And Expression, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996, pp. 185-186. Illustrated b/w, p. 186.
1995 “Painting Atobigraphical Still-Lifes”, Oil Highlights, Still Life, 1995, illustrated.
1994 Menninger Perspective, Volume 25, no. 2, 1994, Topeka, KS, p. 18, color illustration.
Smith, P.C. “Mary Joan Waid at G.W. Einstein,” Art in America, New York, July 1994.
1993 Alloway, Lawrence. Paintings and Pastels, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY, September 27-October 22, 1993, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Arthur, John. Still Life 1963-1993., Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, August 6 - September 12, 1993, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Good, Joan. Self-Portrait: The Changing Self. New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, April 2 - May 30, 1993, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Strecker, Von Manfred. “Gesichter in Nahsicht,” Neue Westfalenblatt, Bielfeld, Germany, April 19, 1993, illustrated.
“Existenzanganste und visionare Landschaften,” Westfalenblatt, Biefeld, Germany, April 20, 1993, illustrated.
Zimmer, William. “Artists Turn the Brush on Themselves,” The New York Times, New York, May 1993, p.10.
1991 Cyphers, Peggy. “Reviews: Mary Joan Waid,” Arts Magazine, New York, January 1991, pp.100-101, illustrated.
Doherty, M. Stephen. “Painting Autobiographical Still-Lifes: Mary Joan Waid”, American Artist, New York, May 1991, pp.52-55, illustrated.
Gray, Peter. Psychology, Worth Publishers, Inc., New York, 1991 Part 1: opener, opposite p.1, color illustrated.
Menninger Perspective, Volume 22, no. 2, 1991, Topeka, KS, p. 24-25, color illustration.
Menninger Perspective, Volume 25, no. 4, 1991, Topeka, KS, p. 16-17, color illustration.
1989 Allison, Michael. Positive I.D., The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, March 31- June 4, 1989, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
1988 Spencer, Howard DaLee. Mary Joan Waid: Recent Works. Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, October 23 - November 27, 1988, exhibition catalogue, illustrated.
Stewart, Doug. “The Portraitist’s Dilemma,” Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, July 1988, pp.43-50, illustrated.
1987 “Reviews: Mary Joan Waid,” Artforum, New York, May 1987, illustrated.
Wolff, Theodore F. “Pastels that show why the medium deserves respect,” The Christian Science Monitor, September 30, 1987, pp.21-22.
1985 Cohen, Ronny. “Large-Scale Close-Up Drawings,” Drawing¨, New York, Vol. VII, No. 4, November-December 1985, pp. 78-83, illustrated.
Millis, Christopher. “Defying Expectations: Six Exhibits,” Artspeak, New York, February 1985, p.15.
“Mary Joan Waid,” Arts Magazine, New York, February 1985, p.15, illustrated.
1983 Anderson, Phil, “Made in America,” A.R.T.S., Minneapolis, June 1983.
Henry, Gerrit, “New York Reviews: Mary Joan Waid,” Artnews, December, 1983.
King, Mary. “Waid’s Details of Women in Paintings, Pastels,” Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, June 15, 1983.
Rubin, Michael G. “Mary Joan Waid expolres potential of portraiture,” St. Louis Globe Democrat, St. Louis, June 11-12, 1983, p.12C.
1982 “Large Format Drawings, Artnews, New York, October 1982, p.166, illustrated.
Gassert, Sigmar. “Im Dialog mit sich selbest,” Basler Zeitung. Basel, September 27, 1982, p.43, illustrated.
Hn.,R. “Not Vital, Mary Joan Waid”, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Zurich, September 11, 1982, p.42.
Killer, Peter. “Not Vital, Mary Joan Waid,” Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, September 11, 1982.
O’Beil, Hedy. “Mary Joan Waid,” Arts Magazine, New York, February 1982, illustrated.
1981 Horne, David. “Views off-center, but Waid right on target,” The Arizona Daily Star, Tuscon, March 1, 1981.
PRESS AND REVIEWS
2023, Ackerburg, Madeline. “‘Fall Bounty’ Exhibition at Atrium Gallery Explores the Essence of Life, Power of Transformation,” Ladue News, October 26
2007, Bloomfield, Maureen. The Artist’s Magazine.
1985, Mills, Christopher. Arts Magazine.
1977, Moore, Sylvia. The Feminist Art Journal.